Car-fender.



UNITED STATES- PATENT @einem LUCIEN CASTIN, OF NEW KENSINGTON,PENNSYLVANIA.

CAR-FENDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No; 689,705, dated December24, 1901. Application led October 18,1901. Serial No. 79,104. (Nomodel.)

This invention relates to certain new and useful improvements incar-fenders, and relates particularly to that class of car-fendershaving an air-cushion secured thereto in such' a manner as to preventinjury to the person when struck by the fender.

The invention aims to construct a fender of this class with anair-cushion in two or more sections, so as to permit the ready foldingof the fender when desired.

Briefly described, the invention comprises a fender having a stationaryupright portion which is adapted to be connected to the dashboard of thecar and the folding section adapted to lie normally in the horizontalposition in close proximity to the track. A pneumatic or air cushionisprovided for each of the sections, these cushions being removablyconnected to the stationary' section or the frame of the fender.

'In describing theY invention in detail ref erence is had to theaccompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, and whereinlike numerals of reference indicate corresponding parts throughout'theseveral views, in Which- Figure 1 is a detail perspective view of myimproved fender attached in position on a car, the latter being brokenaway. Fig. 2 is a transverse vertical sectional view of the fenderattached in position. Fig. 3 isa detail perspective view 0f a part ofthe fender-frame, the pneumatic cushions being removed.

To put my invention into practice, I provide a frame which comprises twosectionsthe vertical stationary section and a folding section-thevertical stationary section being adapted to be attached rigidly to thedashboard l of the car and consists ot two end uprights 2, recessed ontheir rear faces to receive the cross-bars 3, which may be rigidlysecured therein by screws or nails, as shown, and the frame thus formedsuspended from the cardashboard by screws or bolts passing into thecross-pieces 3, as shown in Fig. 2, or this frame may be rigidly securedto the car-platform in any suitable manner. At their lower ends theuprigh'ts 2 are formed with outwardlylv` projecting portions 4, whichare bifurcated to form a pair of lugs in which the side rails 5 of thefolding section of the fender are pivotally supported. The pivotal endsof these side rails 5 are cut away or beveled, as shown at 6, so as topermit the folding of this seclion of the fender in a vertical position,suchas shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2 of the drawings. Cross-bars 7connect the side rails 5, and the stationary section of the fender, aswell as the folding section, is provided with a suitable netting 8,which kmay be of wire mesh or any other desirable material. The air orpneuary section of the fender, and a like cushion 10 covers the movablesection of the fender, this latter cushion having an overhangingforward' edge 11, which lies over the front crossbar 7 p with airthrough the ordinary valve l2 in the usual manner. Each ot' the cushionsis provided with lugs 14, which are adapted to button onto the headedpin or studsl, carried by the fender-frame. The two cushions at theirmeeting edges are so constructed as not to interfere with each otherwhen folding,-

this construction being clearly shown in Fig. 2 of the drawings.

With this construction it will be observed that a cheap and efcient formof fender will be provided, and it will be noted that in case a personshould be struck by the fender the air or pneumatic cushions willprevent serious injury, and in the practice of the invention it will beobserved that various changes may be made inthe details of constructionwithout departing from the general spirit of my invent-ion. Having fullydescribed my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is-

1. In a car-fender, the combination of av fender-frame comprising twosections one rigidly secured to the car and the other pivoted to therigid section, of removable air-cushions for each section, said cushionshaving lu gs adapted to be fastened to the headed pin.

These cushions may be filled` `matic cushion 9 is provided for thestationtion pivoted to the rigid section, of a pneumatic cushionremovably secured to each section, the cushion for the folding sectionhaving its front edge overlapping the front bar of the folding section,substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I aix my signature in the presence of twoWitnesses.

LUOIEN CASTIN.

Witnesses:

A. M. WILSON, E. E. POTTER.

